The Sequel to the Count of Gabalis

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...councils Original: "ciles", the conclusion of "conciles". that formerly forbade reading you The speaker is likely addressing Aristotle or his works directly. were truly inspired by Heaven! Are you not of this opinion, Sir? Is Aristotle not pernicious to Morality? Pernicious, I replied, Sir, in the highest degree. And do you not find the century, he continued, horribly corrupt? Horribly, I replied. And would you not willingly become, he pursued, the Disciple and the Coadjutor Coadjutor: an assistant or helper to a high-ranking official, often intended as a successor of a man extraordinarily raised up by the Holy Spirit for the general reformation of morals? Provided that it were neither Luther nor Calvin, I replied, nor some other man of the same kind, I have a sufficient penchant for correcting. That, he said, is the most laudable inclination that a Christian can have: one must think only of morals; we are all Pastors Pastors: used here in the sense of spiritual caretakers or "shepherds" of one another to one another; God has charged each of us in particular with the salvation of our neighbor. Woe to him who works only for his own sanctification Sanctification: the process of being made holy or purified from sin, and who neglects that of his brothers: but this is not